Re: Glibc with target 386 - NPTL, LinuxThreads fail to `make`

2008-03-17 Thread Randy McMurchy
Eric Stout wrote these words on 03/17/08 11:25 CST: > They also use the 386 cpu on the space shuttle because they know the code > base inside and out, and it's incredibly pysically stable. Yes, they use the 386 CPU on the shuttle, but not for the reasons you state. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips

Re: Glibc with target 386 - NPTL, LinuxThreads fail to `make`

2008-03-17 Thread Eric Stout
> I'm cross-compiling Linux for a 386. If you just scoffed at reading > that, then let me tell you that (1) of all the purported "i386" > distros not a single one runs on a real 386 (caveats galore - see Q4), > and (2) the questions have more to do with glibc, NPTL, an

Glibc with target 386 - NPTL, LinuxThreads fail to `make`

2008-03-17 Thread NeoAmsterdam
I'm cross-compiling Linux for a 386. If you just scoffed at reading that, then let me tell you that (1) of all the purported "i386" distros not a single one runs on a real 386 (caveats galore - see Q4), and (2) the questions have more to do with glibc, NPTL, and LinuxThreads than

Re: Linuxthreads!

2007-02-15 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/15/07, Athena P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Many thanks Dan - think u have answered my question! I should mention that it is actually still possible to build linuxthreads if you need it for compatibility with old binaries or something. I think most of the big distros instal

RE: Linuxthreads!

2007-02-15 Thread Athena P
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Nicholson Sent: 15 February 2007 20:33 To: LFS Support List Subject: Re: Linuxthreads! On 2/15/07, Athena P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was just wondering why this has not been included

Re: Linuxthreads!

2007-02-15 Thread Dan Nicholson
Right. I don't know if linuxthreads is even supported on newer glibc's. NPTL (Native Posix Threads Library) is the standard threading library for glibc. libcrypt has been included in the tree for a while, too. Here's what my slightly older libc says: $ /lib/libc.so.6 GNU C Libr

Linuxthreads!

2007-02-15 Thread Athena P
Hello I come from the BSD world, particular FreeBSD and haven't played with Linux for quite some time so please excuse me if this is a really stupid question. I seem to remember ages and ages ago when I was upgrading an old slackware box from libc5 to glibc2. I had to tar in linuxthreads-{